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Literal Standard Version

2 Samuel 12:2

The rich has very many flocks and herds,

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - David;   Minister, Christian;   Nathan;   Parables;   Reproof;   Scofield Reference Index - Parables;   Thompson Chain Reference - Bible Stories for Children;   Children;   David;   Home;   Pleasant Sunday Afternoons;   Religion;   Stories for Children;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Parables;   Poor, the;   Prophets;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Nathan;   Parable;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Bathsheba;   Nathan;   Parables;   Prophecy, prophet;   Wisdom literature;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Allegory;   Lamb, Lamb of God;   Parable;   Poor and Poverty, Theology of;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Allegory;   Cattle;   David;   Tekoa, Tekoah;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Nathan;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Court Systems;   David;   Jonah;   King, Kingship;   Parables;   Poor, Orphan, Widow;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Ammon, Ammonites;   Nathan;   Parable;   Poverty;   Samuel, Books of;   Wisdom;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Nathan ;   The Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary - Nathan;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Chief parables and miracles in the bible;   David;   Obed-edom;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Law of Moses;   Na'than;   Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary - Nathan;   Parable;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Hebrew Monarchy, the;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Nathan (1);   Parable;   Samuel, Books of;   Sin (1);   Kitto Biblical Cyclopedia - Allegory;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Bath-Sheba;   Judge;   Nathan;   Parable;   Poetry;   Satire;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
The rich man had very large flocks and herds,
Hebrew Names Version
The rich man had very many flocks and herds,
King James Version
The rich man had exceeding many flocks and herds:
Lexham English Bible
The rich man had very many flocks and herds,
English Standard Version
The rich man had very many flocks and herds,
New Century Version
The rich man had many sheep and cattle.
New English Translation
The rich man had a great many flocks and herds.
Amplified Bible
"The rich man had a very large number of flocks and herds,
New American Standard Bible
"The wealthy man had a great many flocks and herds.
Geneva Bible (1587)
The rich man had exceeding many sheepe and oxen:
Legacy Standard Bible
The rich man had a great many flocks and herds.
Contemporary English Version
The rich man owned a lot of sheep and cattle,
Complete Jewish Bible
The rich man had vast flocks and herds;
Darby Translation
The rich had very many flocks and herds;
Easy-to-Read Version
The rich man had lots of sheep and cattle.
George Lamsa Translation
The rich man had exceedingly many flocks and herds;
Good News Translation
The rich man had many cattle and sheep,
Literal Translation
The rich one had flocks and very many herds.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
The riche man had very many shepe and oxen:
American Standard Version
The rich man had exceeding many flocks and herds;
Bible in Basic English
The man of wealth had great numbers of flocks and herds;
Bishop's Bible (1568)
The rich man had exceeding many sheepe and oxen:
JPS Old Testament (1917)
The rich man had exceeding many flocks and herds;
King James Version (1611)
The rich man had exceeding many flockes and herds.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And the rich man had very many flocks and herds.
English Revised Version
The rich man had exceeding many flocks and herds:
Berean Standard Bible
The rich man had a great number of sheep and cattle,
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
The riche man hadde ful many scheep, and oxun;
Young's Literal Translation
The rich hath flocks and herds very many;
Update Bible Version
The rich man had exceeding many flocks and herds;
Webster's Bible Translation
The rich [man] had very numerous flocks and herds:
World English Bible
The rich man had very many flocks and herds,
New King James Version
The rich man had exceedingly many flocks and herds.
New Living Translation
The rich man owned a great many sheep and cattle.
New Life Bible
The rich man had many flocks and cattle.
New Revised Standard
The rich man had very many flocks and herds;
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
The, rich, man had flocks and herds exceeding many;
Douay-Rheims Bible
The rich man had exceeding many sheep and oxen.
Revised Standard Version
The rich man had very many flocks and herds;
New American Standard Bible (1995)
"The rich man had a great many flocks and herds.

Contextual Overview

1And YHWH sends Nathan to David, and he comes to him, and says to him: "Two men have been in one city, one rich and one poor. 2The rich has very many flocks and herds,3but the poor one has nothing, except one little ewe-lamb which he has bought and keeps alive. And it grows up together with him and with his sons. It eats of his morsel, and it drinks from his cup, and it lies in his bosom, and it is as a daughter to him. 4And a traveler comes to the rich man, and he spares to take from his own flock, and from his own herd, to prepare for the traveling [man] who has come to him; and he takes the ewe-lamb of the poor man and prepares it for the man who has come to him." 5And the anger of David burns against the man exceedingly, and he says to Nathan, "YHWH lives, surely the man who is doing this [is] a son of death, 6and [for] the ewe-lamb he repays fourfold, because that he has done this thing, and because that he had no pity." 7And Nathan says to David, "You [are] the man! Thus said YHWH, God of Israel: I anointed you for king over Israel, and I delivered you out of the hand of Saul; 8and I give to you the house of your lord, and the wives of your lord, into your bosom, and I give the house of Israel and Judah to you; and if [that is] too little, then I add such and such [things] to you. 9Why have you despised the word of YHWH, to do evil in His eyes? You have struck Uriah the Hittite by the sword, and you have taken his wife for a wife for yourself, and you have slain him by the sword of the sons of Ammon. 10And now, the sword does not turn aside from your house for all time, because you have despised Me, and take the wife of Uriah the Hittite to be for a wife for yourself;

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

exceeding: 2 Samuel 12:8, 2 Samuel 3:2-5, 2 Samuel 5:13-16, 2 Samuel 15:16, Job 1:3

Cross-References

Genesis 12:3
And I bless those blessing you, and I curse him who is cursing you, and all families of the ground have been blessed in you."
Genesis 12:4
And Abram goes on, as YHWH has spoken to him, and Lot goes with him, and Abram [is] a son of seventy-five years in his going out from Haran.
Genesis 12:6
And Abram passes over into the land, to the place of Shechem, to the oak of Moreh; and the Canaanite [is] then in the land.
Genesis 12:8
And he removes from there toward a mountain at the east of Beth-El, and stretches out the tent (Beth-El at the west, and Hai at the east), and he builds an altar to YHWH there, and preaches in the Name of YHWH.
Genesis 12:9
And Abram journeys, going on and journeying toward the south.
Genesis 12:10
And there is a famine in the land, and Abram goes down toward Egypt to sojourn there, for the famine [is] grievous in the land;
Genesis 12:14
And it comes to pass, at the entering of Abram into Egypt, that the Egyptians see the woman that she [is] exceedingly beautiful;
Genesis 12:16
and to Abram he has done good because of her, and he has sheep and oxen, and male donkeys, and menservants, and handmaids, and female donkeys, and camels.
Genesis 12:17
And YHWH plagues Pharaoh and his house—great plagues—for the matter of Sarai, Abram's wife.
Genesis 12:18
And Pharaoh calls for Abram and says, "What [is] this you have done to me? Why have you not declared to me that she [is] your wife?

Gill's Notes on the Bible

The rich [man] had exceeding many flocks and herds. In which the wealth of men lay in those times and countries; these in the parable signify David's wives and concubines, which were many; he had six wives in Hebron, and he took more wives and concubines out of Jerusalem, when he was come from Hebron, 2 Samuel 3:2; and besides his master's, or Saul's wives, given to him, 2 Samuel 12:8.


 
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